Indian national killed during shootout in Saudi Arabia

New Delhi: Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister, on Friday confirmed the killing of an Indian national by stray bullets during a shootout in Saudi Arabia.

According to the information received from the Indian embassy in Riyadh, she said that stray bullets hit four Indians during a shootout in a security operation in Awamia, in the Eastern Province of the kingdom, on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, we lost Mohammad Avesh Khan of Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh,” she tweeted.